Virginia WoolfNow begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
About This Quote
This quote is from the play, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” by Tennessee Williams. It is spoken by Blanche DuBois, the tragic heroine of the play. Her speech begins with her acceptance of her fate as a tragic character and it ends with her conviction that she will become a great living poet. The sentence has four main components.
The first sentence has one verb that means begin to rise. The second sentence has a present tense of a verb that means to lie dormant. The third sentence starts a present tense of a verb that means to begin to toss their crests.
The fourth sentence expresses the idea that once the tide of emotion has begun to rise in you, you must accept it and continue to rise with it.
Source: The Waves
Some Similar Quotes
- I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you,...
- I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
- We love the things we love for what they are.
- I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhereI go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my...
- Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
More Quotes By Virginia Woolf
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
- Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>So I am doing what seems the...
- What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
- To love makes one solitary.